Personally if you're sitting up there staring a lap top (Phoenicia, Plaid,
Richard Devine, Kid 606, etc) it's not a live performance in my opinion
(even if they are dancing around on stage with their shirt off). I have been
pretty keen on what these acts were actually doing live and most have just
been playing back sequences with out any real variation from the album.
Either that our setting up a very long track and doing live effects
processing/knob twiddling which I find to be quite boring (Autechre).
Mouse on Mars, Mum, and Tortoise spend 3-4 hours doing a sound check, lug
equipment all over the globe, improvise and communicate with both the crowd
and each other on stage. That is a performance. I refuse to pay to see any
more lap top "performances". I'll go home and listen to the "performance" in
the comfort of my own home. To be honest I would rather go hear a DJ. At
least they can keep a consistant groove.
I am a lap top performer, so I shouldn't talk. I am however working with
musicians on a live set. This, to me, is the necessary progression of
electronic music in the live realm. Do any of you agree?
quoted 45 lines From: Bryan Finoki <finoki@lucasarts.com>
>From: Bryan Finoki <finoki@lucasarts.com>
>To: 'George Williamson' <georgewilliamson@btinternet.com>, idm list
><idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: RE: [idm] Who performed the best live act that you have
>seen/remember/reccomend?
>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:01:12 -0700
>
>Could people maybe add a little *why* they were the best?
>
>I am trying to get at what risks, what feats, what real live tweaking
>madness the musicians are accomplishing at their shows. To what extent are
>they doign anything up there?
>
>I saw Phoenicia not long ago, who gave a pretty sick demonstration of
>LOGIC.
>
>Chris Wessin, when with the oRB was pretty amazing live engineer.
>
>YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY THE BLUE MEN!!!!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Williamson [mailto:georgewilliamson@btinternet.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:58 AM
>To: idm list
>Subject: Re: [idm] Who performed the best live act that you have
>seen/remember/reccomend?
>
>
>Richard Devine on the Warp Magic bus tour
>
>or
>
>Broadcast in Edinburgh
>
>georgewilliamson
>
>
>
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